Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] and [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , the mind must be in readiness for new ways of seeing so that it is already poised for the marvellous and even the illogical . |
| 2 | The Victorian obsession with comfort has some relation to this conviction , for the first and even the final — test of a home is whether it makes the visitor feel at ease . |
| 3 | For the first and almost the only time in the Second World War , there was what can fairly be described as a generally pervading popular ‘ war mood ’ , disdaining any premature and presumed over-generous peace with Britain , and even somewhat disappointed with Hitler 's new and ‘ final ’ peace offer of 19 July , aimed at assuaging world opinion . |
| 4 | There will be a Krypton Factor room for the energetic , A Kind Of Loving for the romantic and even a conference suite named after the inventor of TV , John Logie Baird . |
| 5 | The people slide past like fish and I 'm sucked down the street , heading for the next and then the next set of lights . |
| 6 | The arguments given in favour is that we vote for the wise and then the wise go on to make a proper final decision about who 's best . |
| 7 | However , like the mammals and the birds , the flowering plants certainly originated , and probably did much of their evolutionary groundwork , during the Mesozoic and especially the Cretaceous . |
| 8 | Critical attention on the Renaissance during the 1980s and now the 1990s is no more disinterested than during the 1940s or at any other period . |
| 9 | As we have already seen , recruitment of girl apprentices increased during the 1890s and especially the 1900s . |
| 10 | The prototype Caribou first flower on July 30 , 1958 and attracted a lot of interest , including the US Army who ordered the type initially as the CV-2 and later the C-7 , the type seeing service in Vietnam . |
| 11 | Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible . |
| 12 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 13 | The second was formally liquidated in Europe between 1848 and 1868 , though the situation of the impoverished and especially the landless peasantry in regions of large estates in southern and eastern Europe often remained semi-servile , in as much as it remained subject to overwhelming non-economic coercion . |
| 14 | Only where the demands of the Anglo-Norman and then the Angevin empire dictated it was there regular delegation of the prince 's judicial rights to an official ; even then , this delegation was revoked when the king-duke visited . |
| 15 | This is referred to as a form of idolatry ; it is the particularization or objectification of the Ultimate and consequently a form of demonization . |
| 16 | The tentacle pores are small ; those of the first and sometimes the second arm segment armed with two large , rounded tentacle scales , the others only have one . |
| 17 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 18 | ‘ The result is that our good companies are embarrassed and undermined by the behaviour of the bad and even the bad by the worst . ’ |
| 19 | Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head . |
| 20 | This gives the slope of the CML and hence the measure could be used to position portfolio performance in the risk return space . |
| 21 | A man who finds a ready market among the ever-hopeful for his protective devices , was shown with a radiation-checker which would enable families to decide who is the one with the leastest and therefore the candidate to go outside first . |
| 22 | And standard structures associated with dance and song , together with characteristic melodic types and rhythmic patterns , survive into the eighteenth and even the nineteenth centuries ( symphonic minuets , Viennese waltzes , domestic atrophic songs , Italian opera arias ) . |
| 23 | Here you can find childrens books , an Arthur Askey annual from the 1940s and surely the ultimate dirty book , a 1935 War Office Drainage Manual . |
| 24 | Thus , ads targeted at 40-year-old housewives started to use hit tunes first from the fifties and now the late sixties . |
| 25 | In the 1960s and subsequently the discovery of the need to study processes led to appreciation of the need for familiarity with subject matter from interdisciplinary origins and to acquire and develop techniques that could be employed for process investigations and particularly for empirical measurements . |
| 26 | These became exposed in the Triassic and again in the Cretaceous and consequently the interbedded evaporites were removed and the carbonates themselves were karstified . |
| 27 | The central point is that the range of different patois spoken reflects both the complexity of the linguistic situation in the Caribbean and also the modifications to these being made by children growing up within the overseas speech communities in London . |
| 28 | There were two lofts and the wedding was in the one and then the home brew and the stuff was kept in the other and the food . |
| 29 | In Germany the large shift in Jewish identity came in the eighteenth and especially the nineteenth centuries as no longer Yiddish but German became the first language for most Jews . |
| 30 | The maize or Indian corn is what you may well be most conscious of here , a crop introduced into the western Pyrenees in the 1600s and long a staple there , occupying now nearly half the cultivated space . |